Four musicians of the Belgian band “Belch” are in Thailand to prepare an unusual concert with hill tribe’s students.

Doy, Boong and Rachel join in to celebrate Expats Club 2nd anniversary.

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Confronted by a military junta willing to pull the trigger, Buddhist monks and democracy activists in Myanmar face long odds in trying to uproot an institution that has wielded absolute power for 45 years.
Every sign of dissent over the decades has been crushed, including a major uprising in 1988 that ended when troops gunned down thousands of peaceful demonstrators and imprisoned the survivors.
Typically, the junta blames the protests on a conspiracy by “domestic and external elements,” meaning the West and those in Myanmar who look to its support in the demand for civilian rule. The military trots out a motto underlining a different value system “peace, stability, unity.”